"David A. Sinck" wrote:
>
> \_ SMTP quoth John (EBo) David on 7/31/2001 21:43 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ Matt Alexander wrote:
> \_ >
> \_ > Might I suggest "kill -HUP <pid>" instead? I made the dire mistake once of leaving out the dash when I was trying to HUP a daemon... ie. kill 1 12345
> \_ > Yeah, my boss wasn't too happy about that...
> \_
> \_
> \_ ouch! Remind me of the time I was cleaning up one of the professors
> \_ research machines and did a "rm * .o" instead of a "rm *.o"... The
> \_ machine had not been backed up in over a year. I remember sitting there
> \_ thinking "this command should not take that l- SH!T"
>
> You missed the pounding of the keyboard for ^C that you can't seem to
> find fast enough.
:-) Yes to the accompaning "SH!T, SH!T, SH!T, SH!T, SH!T" to EVERY ^C
stroke. Of course the profession in question was standing 2 feet away.
It would have been worth the picture my face held as he turned to me and
asked "what'e wrong?"
> I *swear* have never ever ever done that in /etc.
or doing a rm -rf from anyplace important...
Then of course there is the:
Makefile:
clean:
rm -rf foo bar *~
which on DOS matches everything. Imaging working for a couple of days
of DOS porting using DJGPP, etc., and doing a "make clean" before
packaging the distro... hmmm... where did everything go?!?!
no... I've NEVER EVER DONE THAT! ;-)
EBo --
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